All About Me: The Story of Your Life

Fabulous prompts to get you to write about your true self and store it all in one place. Kids and grand kids will be happy to have all this knowledge about who you are, when the time comes that they don't have you anymore.

I recommend this book to anyone who always wanted to keep a journal. This is a great way to look back at things that you forgot like where your first vacation was, who was your first love, etc. I really enjoyed filling in the answers!

The questions in this book are extremely innovative and unlike any "list yourself" book out there. This truly delves into what kind of a person you are through your responses to random, but well-thought-out questions. This book basically allows you to put down in a book the version of yourself that your friends and family know. Unlike a journal (which unless you live a very extraordinary life, usually gives way to the mundane, random philosophical rants, or moping) this book sucks out of you a more coherent, real-life version of yourself. And it's fun -- especially asking the questions to someone else, and comparing answers. Thumbs up to Philipp Keel. His "All About My Dog" book is a riot, too.

However, the physical book itself is lacking. The pages, for one, are glossy. GLOSSY! Why make a book that you're supposed to WRITE IN, with glossy pages? There isn't a page in mine that didn't get a fat smear, or print the text on the opposite page when closed. It's hideous. Absolutely frustrating. Double thumbs down to the publisher.

all about me and all about me teenage edition really helped me with relase some emotion and know it asked about my dad'side of the family and my mothers and boyfriends i am a aunt i don't do boys anymore i am older 37 now december8th 2014

Horrible! Horrible content & questions!
2 years ago someone gave me an “all about me”
Book. That exact book is no longer available so i purchased this one based on the reviews... actually I purchased 2! One was a gift for my dad and the other for a family friend who happens to be a Catholic priest. I opened the book and was immediately embarrassed. The questions were SO inappropriate! There was a section on sexuality and intimate fantasies etc...
I just cannot get over the shock. This book is NOT what I want or need m to know about anyone!?!

Needed something to help me start focusing on what I've been experiencing for past 40+ years of my living. And explanations are needed; I don't want a final view of myself as "wolf in sheep's clothing."

I thought this would be a question and answer book. Not what your favored color, where would you love to travel. Fil out the first pages with what's your birthday, where were you born. Who is you mother and father...for the 8 dollar I expected to get more the 50 page of who are you?

I thought this book was more like writing prompts, the only reason I bought it. But once you open and read the inside it's more of a survey. With lots of questions and small line space to write the answers to these questions. The quality of the book is of good make. Thick pages with a good hard cover. Only dissatisfied because I was expecting the content inside to be different but if you are looking for survey type question book this is def a good one!

15% of the questions in this book are truly interesting and thought-provoking. The rest are just 70 pages of online quizzes - "the animal that best describes you," "your sexiest feature," "amount of sexual partners," etc. If in the future, someone stumbles across my copy, it will be as though they found my Deadjournal from freshman year. It will be of trivial information about what's going on at that exact moment in my life - "your most recent lie," "your three best qualities," or "the friend who is most like you." This book is a collection of things that can change within a week. Many questions can be answered in one word, but you are given two lines. Questions where you need more space are the ones with half a line to use.

As I said, this item can be a great novelty - do not give it as a sole gift, but rather as an embellishment to a really thoughtful gift. And if you really want to get to know yourself, and your overall feelings towards life, talk to a therapist - s/he'll ask more relevant questions.

I was VERY DISAPPOINTED with the receipt of All About Me. The first 20 pages of the book are filled out ( the first three pages are filled out in INK and the next 17 pages of the book are completely filled out in pencil.) This does not constitute the definition of a slightly used book. I'd ask for my money back but the shipping cost more than the cost of the book. This experience has really colored my future purchasing of used books on the store.com

I bought this intending to give it to older friends of mine so they chould fill it out for there kids and grand kids. But there are a LOT of sexual questions in there and things NO ONE needs to know about u.

Not at all what I expected. Certainly not appropriate for an older relative. The glowing recommendations make me worry about our society. Do you really want to know about a parent or grandparent's sexual fantasy and if it has ever been fulfilled? Are you curious about the relative someone likes least and why, who they would kill if no retribution, who they think should be killed and if someone picks their nose? If so, this is the book for you.

I purchased this book in 2003 as an anniversary gift for my partner and I. (my partner at the time) We were both open and honest going in because we needed help. We decided on a time frame which if I remember correctly was 2 weeks. At the end of the two weeks we both were ready to share and discuss our answers. (but know I didn't think my partner would be ready) shame on me!
The book is 86 pages in length and has several questions per page and they are categorized by topic such as:

Personal
Historical
What You Like
What You Dislike
Yes or No
Measure your Fears
Cat and Mouse to name a few...

What a gem to save and review year after year and even answer the questions more than once in your lifetime, for additional self discovery.

Novelists often decry the loss of self in modern civilization. Rather than reading a book that encourages you to feel alienated, how about using this one to become better acquainted with yourself and others?
In a busy, hustle-bustle lives, there is too little time for human contact. Psychological intimacy becomes all the more valuable. But where to start?
All About Me is a psychological profile of you, after you fill it out. I found it to be a heart-warming experience, to get back in touch with myself . . . especially sides of myself that even I don't see very often. I probably could not have come up with questions that would have worked nearly this well for myself.
Then, I began to think . . . hmmm, what if the people I care about filled out one of these books too? I'll bet they would be thrilled that I cared enough to give them one, and I'm sure to learn lots of great things that will be the basis of many wonderful discussions.
Then, encouraged by the book's introduction, I began to see the possibility of using these questions as part of a parlor game. You could do a sort of round-robin, and explain your answers and expand upon them as you go. That would certainly beat most cocktail and dinner party conversations.
Then, I thought, you could just ask people these questions wherever you find them. They would make great icebreakers and would be very interesting.
I think you get the idea. A single question can be the fulcrum to move the world, or at least your perception of it.
What are the questions about in this book? Just about everything you can imagine: favorites, fruits of your labors, morals, God, opinions, family relations, friends, likes and dislikes, wishes and dreams, emotions (who makes you most happy?), memories, choices, fears (even measurements of them), psyche, your social relationships (called cat and mouse), sexuality, ifs, and views.
The nice thing about the questions is that they are neutral, so you won't feel put on the spot. Instead, they open you up like the petals of a flower in the dewy morning.
Let me leave you with a question. Wouldn't you like to have had a version of this book filled out by your parents and grandparents to remember them by? If you agree, you should do this for your children and grandchildren. If you don't want to share all of these things with them, make your own version that you do want to share.
Banish your stalled thinking about the unavoidability of isolation in the modern world!